Internet Access for Development
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- نویسنده : Oecd
Description
The Internet, in little more than a decade following its commercialisation, has been remarkably successful in developing greater opportunities for communication access for the first billion users. The challenge for all stakeholders is to expand the economic and social opportunities made possible by the Internet for the next several billion users. This report examines where these users will come from, as well as the large shifts in communications policy which enable expansion to be a practical possibility. It also considers how different government policies affect Internet accessibility. The question of whether these policies – in OECD or developing countries – are conducive to development and poverty reduction is discussed as part of the OECD’s programme on policy coherence for development.1 All indications are that the majority of the next several billion Internet users, mainly from developing countries, will connect principally via wireless networks. In some developing countries wireless subscribers already outnumber those using fixed networks by more than 20 to 1. The characteristics of these “new” Internet users will be vastly different from the first billion. The majority of those now joining wireless networks, for example, have incomes of less than USD 2 per day. حق تکثیر: Public Domain
